West Long Island, New York 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
West Long Island, New York 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall

West Long Island, New York 3D Wood Map | Laser-Cut Birch Nautical Chart

$ 418.00
24.5 x 31 in
Baltic birch, hand-stained water
Up to nine laser-cut birch layers
Carved bathymetric relief, laser-etched labels
Soundings: NOAA nautical survey data
How the Water Becomes Wood

A chart is a stack of flat sheets until the water's real soundings tell it what shape to take.

  1. SurveyReal bathymetric sounding data sets every contour line before a single cut is made.
  2. CutEach depth band is laser-cut from its own sheet of Baltic birch, up to nine layers deep.
  3. StainWater layers are stained by hand, reading darker the deeper the water runs.
  4. StackThe sheets are registered and stacked in sequence, and the bed's true shape rises out of the wood.
  5. EtchDepths and place names are burned into the grain itself, never printed on it.
  6. FrameA solid Baltic birch frame and acrylic glass finish the piece, ready to hang.

Western Long Island Sound in stacked Baltic birch, 24.5 by 31 inches: the narrow, harbor-crowded end of the Sound where New York's boating life concentrates, every depth contour cut as its own layer.

The western Sound funnels down toward the East River past a shoreline of storied harbors: Manhasset Bay and its yacht clubs, Hempstead Harbor, Oyster Bay where Roosevelt kept Sagamore Hill above the anchorage, City Island with its old boatyard soul, and Larchmont and Rye across the way. Mid-channel stands Execution Rocks Light, the Sound's most ominously named landmark, guarding the reef every delivery skipper gives room. On the chart, the harbors notch the top layers on both shores while the shipping channel threads an engraved line between the shoals toward Throgs Neck.

Each contour is a separate laser-cut sheet, stacked by hand and engraved, with acrylic glass over the face and a solid Baltic birch frame.

Wednesday night racers from a dozen clubs share this water and dispute every inch of it. Here is the racecourse, framed.

The engraving spans City Island and Throgs Neck, Manhasset and Hempstead bays, Oyster Bay, and the Westchester shore from New Rochelle to Rye. The full Sound runs on the Long Island Sound chart, with Manhattan just through the gate.

  • 24.5 × 31 in
  • Solid Baltic birch frame
  • Acrylic glass front, ready to hang
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  • 14-day returns
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